Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

The cards spoke to a suspicion that many whose work is play can never be free of: that you can only flaunt your triviality for so long before punishment is due.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

Unexamined thoughts, habits or action may offer some deceptive gain or pleasure but eventually it takes away something most valuable from our life, which we have ever wished for.

All living beings have Buddha nature and can become Buddhas.

Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

I get happier every day. I have a sense of accomplishment every day of my life.

Progress is more important than perfection.